<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm really excited to meet you all and to hear about your work in November.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I coordinate and teach in the Digital Humanities program at UCLA. A lot of my past work has been on the visual culture of medicine, and specifically how physicians have used narrative techniques to connect the body together on film. I'm finishing my book, <i>Depth Perception</i>, on that subject now.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The project I'll be presenting at the Digital Labor conference, which I'm calling "Dendriform Capitalism," is about supply-chain management, a term that management professionals use to describe the flow of goods from raw materials to the customer. I focus specifically on SAP, the software that most large companies use to manage their supply chains, and describe SAP's data model, the logic that governs its many different pieces, and how we might use methods from platform studies and Marxist theory to analyze this software. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's something I find interesting enough to keep me awake as I comb through SAP technical manuals, which is saying a lot!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Very much looking forward to the conference.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Miriam</div></div>